Good questions all.
I have a question about Ancient art (not cave drawings)
It seems to me that when archaeologists discover some very old pottery paintings/art, it is ALWAYS described as, and generally looks very good. By good I mean the artists seems to have an artistic talent.
So, My question is: Where are all the “BAD” attempts at “ART/Decoration” ?
Just a thought.
Two possibilities come to mind.
1) the bad attempts were either just smears of paint (or used to be good but have lost part of the image and therefore what they were is now inobvious) and have never been recognized as man-made,
2) the bad artists were clubbed by Og, who then bashed the bad art out of existence. Art criticism would therefore become the first academic specialty.
But an interesting and profound thought indeed. Where are the mistakes?
Sort of like asking the question: If an infinite number of monkeys could type an infinite number of manuscripts and come up with the works of Shakespeare, where in the Universe do you stack the mistakes?
In the infinite Universe I suppose you’d put them in infinitee Black Holes, but there are a limited number of caves and wall surfaces.